Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2019

I view a roadmap as a high-level plan that states specific benefits a product should provide over a certain timeframe, which may range from six to 12 months. I find it helpful to use the product roadmap so that it connects the overall product strategy with the product backlog, as shown in the picture below.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. You can download the template for free from romanpichler.com/tools, and you can find more information on how to use it in my post The GO Product Roadmap. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 8, 2020

Tim has recruited, mentored, and managed product managers in each of these positions, so you could say he knows a thing or two about interviewing for product managers. They then have to switch gears and make the strategy happen in practice – that is part of the challenge of being a product manager!

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 31, 2024

Most people and teams conflate prioritizing and sequencing of work. Shaping a product strategy involves both. Your product won’t spring into existence fully formed and ready to compete like Athena emerging fully armored from the head of Zeus. First you decide which problems are important to solve.

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

At ProductTank Montevideo (Mvd) we celebrated World Product Day earlier this month with a presentation from an awesome product leader, VP of Product Strategy at Rootstrap, Neville Reeves. Neville started with a “nine dots” exercise (you must link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen).

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BrainMates

JULY 31, 2023

Innovation Is Just Good Product Management By ADRIENNE TAN Innovation has become a buzzword in countless organisations. CEOs want it, strategists write about it, marketers talk about it, and product managers strive to deliver it. Every product has a lifecycle. What Exactly Is Innovation? Why Bother Innovating?

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most organizations that start hiring to build out the product team have not exhausted the potential on their current team. Growing your team from within is harder and requires more effort, but I believe it also helps you build a fundamentally stronger team in the long-run. A tracker for growing our team.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. Why was this prioritized?”

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2022

When it comes to the product team’s organizational structures and strategies, product operations is the hot new thing. More and more teams realize the value of having an operationally-focused professional. The role frees up time for product managers. Product roadmap delays. Trust issues.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 21, 2016

When I am happy and content, everything seems OK—even an nagging problem with my website isn’t that bad and can wait. But when I am discontent, tense, or tired, small things can seem big and bad. I find that mindfulness is particularly helpful for product managers and product owners. Tip #1: Don’t Rush.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most organizations that start hiring to build out the product team have not exhausted the potential on their current team. Growing your team from within is harder and requires more effort, but I believe it also helps you build a fundamentally stronger team in the long-run. A tracker for growing our team.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

” Product managers understand this concept more so than other professions. You feel bad for shooting them down, they’re frustrated their request was summarily rejected, and the relationship is strained. ” Every product manager eventually hears some version of this from their sales team.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Interviewing users and customers. out of 5 stars.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

All those new features might look good on a product comparison matrix and give salespeople a new angle when pitching reluctant prospects, but none of it matters if those features aren’t solving real customer problems. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products margins and revenue generating impact.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Poor structure can make things worse. Define your org structure There are many ways to organize product development. Each function (Engineering, Product, and Design) has their own reporting structure and organization. The General Manager model. For example, Frontend and Backend teams.

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ProductPlan

MAY 25, 2021

Product Strategy is Important. One of the most important roles of a product manager (PM) is setting the product strategy. The strategy, by way of a roadmap, is the document that drives team alignment. Well, let’s start by making sure you have a strategy that works first.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Are you trying to wrap your head around the role of product management and why it is important for the venture? Still confused about the concept of product management? Keep on reading this article in order to get a better idea what a product management framework is, and why is essential for every startup?

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 28, 2023

Knowing a good structure is necessary, but you also need to avoid filling the good template with bad content. There are two patterns I see with product managers I work with – describing problem manifestations, and falling victim to the curse of knowledge. ” “Why?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all. The perfect world does not exist, though. There is only the real world.

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Here at Sequent Learning, we regularly speak with Product Management executives around the world about their latest challenges. Faced with increased competition and aggressive profit goals, Product Management leaders can’t afford missed milestones, and certain concerns keep cropping up: How can I improve team’s performance?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. It seems pretty obvious that designers and product teams have different ways of thinking, but have you ever wondered why?

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Jobs of the Problem Statement This article continues a series on the three critical flaws in most product development processes a problem statement exists to address. To deepen shallow product thinking to identify meaningful outcomes. That waste comes from not understanding the reasons why to build things.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. The focus then shifts towards outcomes and individual and team authority and ownership. The OKR methodology helps organizations measure success and stay on target with their strategy and vision.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Over the next few years my career evolved through people-management, pre-sales, and program management roles into product management. Getting Faster at Building the Wrong Thing.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 18, 2020

Lean Startup changed how we built products when it was published in 2011 – it lowered the risk in innovation by shortening development cycles. In Italy when northern Italy was testing aggressively, the directive from Rome was to chill a little because their numbers were looking unnecessarily bad.

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Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Welcome to our third episode of Product to Product —a podcast for / by product people. Listen below: In this episode we have Evan Michner , Principal Product Manager at Atlassian —specifically for their chat tools, Stride and HipChat. Going from writing into product, however, not so much.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 30, 2021

It brings product practices into the sales funnel and calls for your involvement in each and every step (as you should be doing regardless). It gives you the visibility you always wanted and requires real cross-team collaboration. The general process of product-led growth starts with mapping the customer journey?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

But what makes product management so interesting is that, unlike most professions, technical skills often take a back seat. Look no further than these 4 essential product management skills we wrote about in a previous post. How did you get into product management? Not convinced?

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Making a choice does not always have to be hard How Product Managers and Leaders Can Reduce Complexity The principles of j?d? Frederick Taylor is by no means the best source of wisdom for modern product or innovation managers. Across these three dimensions, however, product strategy is by far the hardest to master.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2020

Product management turns chaos into order. We face down indecision, molding it into a concrete strategy. This quote has taken on a life of its own, but this truth certainly applies to product management. Particularly in the software business, if you ask a team to build it, they likely can pull it off.

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Roadmunk

MAY 15, 2018

Listen to the episode below: As we reach our final stretch of exploring the human side of product , we’re joined by Ben Mills , Head of Product at Venmo, this episode. Overseeing a team of 11 product managers, Ben is a step removed from managing the actual product at Venmo. Is that true?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Eoghan McCabe, CEO , and Matt Hodges, VP of Commercial Product Strategy.

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